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Forms In Early Modern Utopia
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Author : Nina Chordas
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2017-11-30
Forms In Early Modern Utopia written by Nina Chordas and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-11-30 with Literary Criticism categories.
Though much has been written about connections between early modern utopia and nascent European imperialism, the author brings a fresh perspective to the topic by exploring it through some of the sub-genres that comprise early modern utopia, identifying and discussing each specific form in the cultural and historical contexts that render it suitable for the creation and promulgation of utopian programs, whether imaginary or intended for actual implementation. This study transforms scholarly understanding of early modern utopia by first complicating our notion of it as a single genre, and secondly by fusing our paradoxically fragmented view of it as alternately a literary or social phenomenon. Her analysis shows early modern utopia to be not a single genre, but rather a conglomeration of many forms or sub-genres, including travel writing, ethnography, dialogue, pastoral, and the sermon, each with its own relationship to nascent imperialism. These sub-genres bring to utopian writing a variety of discourses - anthropological, theological, philosophical, legal, and more - not usually considered fictional; presented in a humanist guise, these discourses lend to early modern utopia an authority that serves to counteract the general contemporary distrust of fiction. The author shows how early modern utopia, in conjunction with the authoritative forms of its sub-genres, is not only able to impose its fictions upon the material world but in doing so contributes to the imperialistic agendas of its day. This volume contains a bibliographical essay as well as a chronology of utopian publications and projects, in Europe and the New World.
Forms In Early Modern Utopia
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Author : Dr Nina Chordas
language : en
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Release Date : 2013-04-28
Forms In Early Modern Utopia written by Dr Nina Chordas and has been published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd. this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-04-28 with Literary Criticism categories.
Though much has been written about connections between early modern utopia and nascent European imperialism, Nina Chordas brings a fresh perspective to the topic by exploring it through some of the sub-genres that comprise early modern utopia, identifying and discussing each specific form in the cultural and historical contexts that render it suitable for the creation and promulgation of utopian programs, whether imaginary or intended for actual implementation. This study transforms scholarly understanding of early modern utopia by first complicating our notion of it as a single genre, and secondly by fusing our paradoxically fragmented view of it as alternately a literary or social phenomenon. Her analysis shows early modern utopia to be not a single genre, but rather a conglomeration of many forms or sub-genres, including travel writing, ethnography, dialogue, pastoral, and the sermon, each with its own relationship to nascent imperialism. These sub-genres bring to utopian writing a variety of discourses - anthropological, theological, philosophical, legal, and more - not usually considered fictional; presented in a humanist guise, these discourses lend to early modern utopia an authority that serves to counteract the general contemporary distrust of fiction. Chordas shows how early modern utopia, in conjunction with the authoritative forms of its sub-genres, is not only able to impose its fictions upon the material world but in doing so contributes to the imperialistic agendas of its day. This volume contains a bibliographical essay as well as a chronology of utopian publications and projects, in Europe and the New World.
Tracing Private Conversations In Early Modern Europe
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Author : Johannes Ljungberg
language : en
Publisher: Springer Nature
Release Date : 2024-03-01
Tracing Private Conversations In Early Modern Europe written by Johannes Ljungberg and has been published by Springer Nature this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-03-01 with History categories.
This open access book provides a multifold exploration of how people in early modern Europe understood, conducted, and actively used private conversations. From sharing personal matters to discussing delicate secrets, all layers of early modern society had their motives for wanting to keep certain exchanges out of public eyes and ears, and ways of trying to achieve this. Detecting such instances in historical sources typically becomes a complex pursuit, full of subtle references that require creative approaches, especially when it comes to more informal practices. Yet, in a reading against the grain, different sources can offer us hints of how conversations took place in private. The book consists of a historiographical and methodological introduction to the study of private conversations, followed by ten case studies from a variety of cities, villages, and countryside across early modern Europe. The concluding epilogue suggests some pathways to further explore the terrain of how people have talked in private in past societies.
Three Early Modern Utopias
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Author : Thomas More
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2008-11-13
Three Early Modern Utopias written by Thomas More and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-11-13 with Fiction categories.
A unique edition of three early modern utopian texts, using a contemporary translation of More's Utopia and examining the Renaissance world view as shown by these writers. The edition includes the illustrative material that accompanied early editions of Utopia, full chronologies of the authors, notes, and glossary.
The Renaissance Utopia
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Author : Chloë Houston
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2016-02-24
The Renaissance Utopia written by Chloë Houston and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-02-24 with Literary Criticism categories.
A study of European utopias in context from the early years of Henry VIII’s reign to the Restoration, this book is the first comprehensive attempt since J. C. Davis’ Utopia and the Ideal Society (1981) to understand the societies projected by utopian literature from Thomas More’s Utopia (1516) to the political idealism and millenarianism of the mid-seventeenth century. Where Davis concentrated on understanding utopias historically, Renaissance Utopia also seeks to make sense of utopia as a literary form, offering both a new typology of utopia and a new history of European humanist utopianism. This book examines how the utopia was transformed from an intellectual exercise in philosophical interrogation to a serious means of imagining practical social reform. In doing so it argues that the relationship between Renaissance utopia and Renaissance dialogue is crucial; the utopian mode of discourse continued to make use of aspects of dialogue even when the dialogue form itself was in decline. Exploring the ways in which utopian texts assimilated dialogue, Renaissance Utopia complements recent work by historians and literary scholars on early modern communities by providing a thorough investigation of the issues informing a way of modelling a very particular community and literary mode - the utopia.
Topos In Utopia A Peregrination To Early Modern Utopianism S Space
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Author : Sotirios Triantafyllos
language : en
Publisher: Vernon Press
Release Date : 2021-09-07
Topos In Utopia A Peregrination To Early Modern Utopianism S Space written by Sotirios Triantafyllos and has been published by Vernon Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-09-07 with History categories.
'Topos in Utopia' examines early modern literary utopias' and intentional communities' social and cultural conception of space. Starting from Thomas More's seminal work, published in 1516, and covering a period of three centuries until the emergence of Enlightenment's euchronia, this work provides a thorough yet concise examination of the way space was imagined and utilised in the early modern visions of a better society. Dealing with an aspect usually ignored by the scholars of early modern utopianism, this book asks us to consider if utopias' imaginary lands are based not only on abstract ideas but also on concrete spaces. Shedding new light on a period where reformation zeal, humanism's optimism, colonialism's greed and a proto-scientific discourse were combined to produce a series of alternative social and political paradigms, this work transports us from the shores of America to the search for the Terra Australis Incognita and the desire to find a new and better world for us.
Alternative Worlds Imagined 1500 1700
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Author : James Colin Davis
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2017-09-07
Alternative Worlds Imagined 1500 1700 written by James Colin Davis and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-09-07 with Science categories.
This book address the relationship between utopian and radical thought, particularly in the early modern period, and puts forward alternatives approaches to imagined ‘realities’. Alternative Worlds Imagined, 1500-1700 explores the nature and meaning of radicalism in a traditional society; the necessity of fiction both in rejecting and constructing the status quo; and the circumstances in which radical and utopian fictions appear to become imperative. In particular, it closely examines non-violence in Gerrard Winstanley’s thought; millennialism and utopianism as mutual critiques; form and substance in early modern utopianism/radicalism; Thomas More’s utopian theatre of interests; and James Harrington and the political necessity of narrative fiction. This detailed analysis underpins observations about the longer term historical significance and meaning of both radicalism and utopianism.
Thomas More S Utopia In Early Modern Europe
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Author : Terence Cave
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2008-12-15
Thomas More S Utopia In Early Modern Europe written by Terence Cave and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-12-15 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
This book provides the first complete account of all the editions of Utopia, whether vernacular or Latin, printed before 1650, together with a transcription of all the prefatory materials they contain. The reception of the idea of Utopia in early modern Europe has been studied extensively before: what has been lacking is a composite picture of how Utopia moved by means of translation from culture to culture and of the ways in which particular versions offered themselves to their readers. Part I consists of a series of chapters which provide a contextual and interpretative framework for each national group of translations; in Part II, the substantive paratexts of all the extant translations of Utopia printed between 1524 and 1643 are reproduced both in the original language and in English translation. The book also contains a chapter sketching the fortunes of the Latin paratexts and editions up to 1650, and a transcription of a single Latin paratext which has never, to our knowledge, been printed in modern times. This book will be of interest to specialists in early modern cultural history and history of the book, to graduate students working in these fields, and to anyone for whom the extraordinary success of More’s Utopia as a book published on the European market remains a perennial fascination.
Renaissance Papers 2023
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Author : James M. Pearce
language : en
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
Release Date : 2024-11-12
Renaissance Papers 2023 written by James M. Pearce and has been published by Boydell & Brewer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-11-12 with Literary Criticism categories.
Renaissance Papers collects the best scholarly essays submitted each year to the Southeastern Renaissance Conference. This volume examines the sacred and the profane in the early modern period. The 2023 volume features essays from the conference held at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, as well as essays submitted directly to the journal. The opening essay juxtaposes Socratic irony and Hermeticism in its exploration of the Neoplatonic influences in Spenser's Faerie Queene. It is followed by three analyses of religious poems; the first demonstrates the ways in which William Baldwin resurrects Edward the sixth in his "Funeralles of King Edward" to promote his own evangelical agenda; the second takes a close look at Herrick's "Rex Tragicus," arguing that it is a powerful expression of "English religious identity." The final essay in this group seeks to complicate the history of the early modern female sonneteer. Returning to the secular, the next essay compares a work by Polish writer Andrzej Modrzewski to Sir Thomas More's Utopia. Art history is the focus of the following triad of essays, which illuminate the visual cultures of the Netherlands and Spain; they address the collaborative organization of the Spanish sculptor Alonso Berruguete's workshop, the related phenomenon of fiction, faith, and spectacle in Maarten van Heemskerck's religious imagery, and the political dimensions of the aesthetics of Habsburg portraiture. The volume concludes with an exuberant analysis of the role of fiction in the art of biographical writing, using the example of Katherine Rundell's Super-Infinite: The Transformations of John Donne. Contributors: Sunmin Cha, Ilenia Colón Mendoza, Scott Lucas, Gerardo Rappazzo Amura, Mary Ruth Robinson, Jesse Russell, Paul J. Stapleton, John Wall, Vaclav Zheng.
A Modern Utopia
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Author : H.G. Wells
language : en
Publisher: Namaskar Book
Release Date : 2024-02-02
A Modern Utopia written by H.G. Wells and has been published by Namaskar Book this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-02-02 with Fiction categories.
A Modern Utopia: H.G. Wells' Visionary Exploration of an Ideal Society Embark on a thought-provoking journey into the realm of utopian ideals and societal exploration with H. G. Wells' visionary work, A Modern Utopia. Immerse yourself in a narrative that envisions an ideal society, exploring the possibilities and challenges of creating a utopian world that transcends the limitations of contemporary civilization. As Wells presents his modern utopia, witness the philosophical musings, social experiments, and the imaginative exploration of a harmonious and advanced society. Each chapter invites you to contemplate the utopian ideals that challenge the conventional notions of human existence and societal organization. But here's the intriguing question that permeates the narrative: How do the utopian concepts presented by Wells resonate with contemporary society, and what lessons can be gleaned from the vision of a modern utopia? Wells' exploration encourages readers to reflect on the potential for societal improvement and the challenges inherent in the pursuit of an ideal world. Explore the visionary details of this literary utopia, where each concept is a building block in the construction of an alternative society. Wells' prose not only sparks the imagination but also prompts contemplation on the possibilities and pitfalls of reshaping the human experience. Are you ready to contemplate the possibilities of A Modern Utopia—a novel that challenges conventional thinking and envisions a utopian world? Engage with concise, illuminating paragraphs that guide you through the philosophical and imaginative landscape of Wells' work. Each chapter is an opportunity to explore utopian ideals and consider the implications of a society built on different principles. Don't miss the opportunity to own a piece of Wells' visionary brilliance. A Modern Utopia is not just a novel; it's an exploration of utopian thought and the potential for societal transformation. Will you join Wells in the pursuit of a modern utopia? Seize the opportunity to own a timeless exploration of utopian ideals. Purchase A Modern Utopia now, and let Wells' words inspire you to imagine a world where the possibilities of societal harmony are boundless.